Senior AIX Platform Architect for Power Systems Automation

First Citizens Bank; Raleigh (NC); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

First Citizens Bank seeks a Senior AIX Platform Engineer to design, automate, and elevate IBM Power Systems platforms. You’ll drive IaC, Ansible-driven automation, and platform modernization across mission-critical banking apps.

The role emphasizes platform architecture, lifecycle strategy, and secure-by-design infrastructure, collaborating with architecture, security, and operations teams to deliver scalable, resilient solutions.

Qualifications

• Minimum required education and experience: Bachelor’s Degree and 8 years’ experience OR High School Diploma or GED/Equivalent and 12 years’ experience in Systems engineer including systems programmer, scripting, troubleshooting.
• 10+ years of enterprise experience designing, engineering, and supporting IBM AIX environments.
• 10+ years of experience with IBM Power Systems platforms.
• Expert-level knowledge of IBM AIX 7.x, IBM Power Systems (Power9, Power10), PowerVM, LPAR, VIOS, HMC, NIM.
• 7+ years of hands-on Ansible development experience with playbooks, roles, collections, modules, inventories, templates, and automation frameworks.
• Experience building enterprise-scale Infrastructure-as-Code solutions using Ansible.

Responsibilities

• Design, engineer, and implement enterprise AIX platform solutions supporting mission-critical applications.
• Develop platform standards, reference architectures, and engineering best practices.
• Evaluate and implement emerging IBM Power and AIX technologies.
• Lead platform modernization initiatives and lifecycle management strategies.
• Engineer highly available, scalable, and resilient infrastructure solutions.
• Partner with architecture teams on strategic platform roadmaps.
• Serve as the primary engineering lead for enterprise AIX automation initiatives.
• Design, develop, test, and maintain complex Ansible automation solutions supporting platform provisioning, configuration management, patching, compliance, and lifecycle operations.
• Develop reusable Ansible roles, collections, playbooks, inventories, and automation frameworks.
• Build CI/CD integration for infrastructure automation workflows.
• Create Infrastructure-as-Code standards and governance models.
• Develop automated compliance validation, security remediation, and configuration drift detection capabilities.
• Engineer self-service provisioning and platform automation capabilities.
• Establish automation coding standards, peer review processes, and software development best practices for infrastructure code.
• Engineer and support IBM Power platforms including Power9, Power10, and future generations.
• Design and optimize virtualization architectures utilizing PowerVM, VIOS, and LPAR technologies.
• Lead platform migrations, hardware refreshes, and infrastructure modernization projects.
• Engineer performance, scalability, and resilience improvements across the platform.
• Partner with cybersecurity teams to engineer secure-by-design platform solutions.
• Develop automated compliance and remediation solutions leveraging Ansible.
• Implement security hardening standards using IaC methodologies.
• Engineer solutions that support compliance with FFIEC, PCI-DSS, SOX, NIST, CIS Benchmarks, Enterprise Security Standards.

Skills

AIX engineering

IBM Power Systems

Ansible automation

IaC

Scripting

Platform modernization

CI/CD

REST APIs

Education

Bachelor's Degree or higher

High School Diploma or GED

Tools

PowerVM

VIOS

LPAR

HMC

NIM

Job description

First Citizens Bank seeks a Senior AIX Platform Engineer to design, automate, and elevate IBM Power Systems platforms. You’ll drive IaC, Ansible-driven automation, and platform modernization across mission-critical banking apps.

The role emphasizes platform architecture, lifecycle strategy, and secure-by-design infrastructure, collaborating with architecture, security, and operations teams to deliver scalable, resilient solutions.